A DRAMATIC INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 4 February 1885, Page 2

A DRAMATIC INCIDENT.

One little incident which I.havenotyet seen recorded took place during the harlequinade, at the Theatre Royal pantoraine, Melbourne ' ; The mimic Salvation Army, which is part, of the funny business of this scene, had just marched, aoross Hie stage, the Hallelujah Lasses being led by some enorg'bii? captain, singing one of their well-known hymns. 'T!;6n, to t!l6 astonishment of the'audience, a gentleman sitfc[hg''in' the stage-box rpseand protested against suclun insult being bffercd to'the religious feelings of those present, tVhile making this statement, the gentleman was evidently controlting with great difficulty the'niost violent indignant, which, at the jeers of the gallery, burst forth into a blaze pf invsctiye. He stood up repeatedly shook his'two fists at the upper part of the house, and on turning to the stage defied the clown and pantaloon, who gazed at him with wonder and amazement. Then his wife, or at any rate, the lady who ncqgijpnjed him, stood up, flung her arms about hi? neqk, awl besought of him to be quiet. But in vain, his temper was up, and nothing could restrain his apparently just a.nger, this stage several timid ladies left the olrpie, fearing that some terrible disturbance would onsiie, and the prompter, book in hand, oame forward to try and quell the disturbanqq, Turning round, and bending low over the front of his Beat, to attack or to argue with his now enemy, theinsujted one tried to : .strike the,.- head "of the down, • who Was nearest to him, who immediately . seized the ooqasjon. to catch hold of the disturber of the evening's amusement and to drag him, assisted by the pantaloon, down upon the stage, Here in a twinkle of an eye,. In; the su"u': B u t! « N fs .to was diyesfeed" of. ' his coat, and stooo. ior a ■ Mflisntf looking, ith9l)BS«^:S nC6 ' ;lj9for6h ? leaped through a trapdoor, wKdtho'lt realm thatj.they. had been deoeived, and and that this little incident, which took place in Bo.; ; much shorter time' than 'it takes to tell it, was all part of tho evening s amusement.